42 Films & TV Shows Set In Iceland
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Jar City
🇮🇸 IcelandA murder opens up a bleak trail of long buried secrets and small town corruption for a worn out police detective and his squad.
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Solar Attack
Michigan New York District of Columbia California 🇮🇸 Iceland 🇷🇺 Russia Shanghai 🇳🇿 New Zealand Atlantic OceanPrepare for the Apocalypse... — When the sun's increasing expulsions of plasma threaten to ignite methane in our atmosphere, international tensions rise while scientists race for a solution to avoid natural disaster.
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The Girl in the Café
🇮🇸 IcelandLawrence, an aging, lonely civil servant falls for Gina, an enigmatic young woman. When he takes her to the G8 Summit in Reykjavik, however, their bond is tested by Lawrence's professional obligations.
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Ring of the Nibelungs
🇮🇸 Iceland 🇩🇪 Germany The Middle Ages The 5th CenturyThe Nordic legend that inspired J.R.R. Tolkien to write the Lord of the Ring trilogy. — In this swords-and-sorcery tale, good-hearted blacksmith Eyvind hides away infant Prince Siegfried after two malevolent kings murder his father. But a fiery meteor sent by the gods reveals Siegfried's destiny, sending him on the quest of a lifetime. To save a crumbling kingdom claim the heart of his true love, he'll have to slay the nefarious dragon, Fafnir.
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Die Another Day
England 🇮🇸 Iceland 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea 🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 2000sHe's never been cooler. — James Bond is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul, who is funding the development of an international space weapon.
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101 Reykjavik
🇮🇸 IcelandThirty-year-old Hlynur still lives with his mother and spends his days drinking, watching porn and surfing the net while living off unemployment checks. A girl is interested in him, but he stands back from commitment. His mother's Spanish flamenco teacher, Lola, moves in with them for Christmas. On New Year's Eve, while his mother is away, Hlynur finds out Lola is a lesbian, but also ends up having sex with her. He soon finds out he and his mother are sharing more than a house. Eventually he must find out where he fits into the puzzle, and how to live life less selfishly.
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The Viking Sagas
🇮🇸 Iceland The Middle AgesThe film chronicles a long-ago time when men relied not on their intellect to make points, but on their swords. A mythical warrior ('Ralf Moeller (I)') wanders the snow-capped landscapes of the North territories on an arduous quest for vengeance. Amid nobles and schemers, saints and brutes, and lovers and fools, this Viking swings his sword for his family's honor, his beloved's hand, and the very survival of his pitiless culture.
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Cold Fever
🇮🇸 IcelandA Japanese businessman travels to Iceland and has a series of misadventures while venturing to a remote area to perform a traditional burial ritual where his parents died several years back.
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The White Viking
🇮🇸 Iceland 🇳🇴 Norway The 10th CenturyNorway in the 10th century. Askur, son of the powerful Thorgeir marries Embla, daughter of one of the few remaining landowners in Norway, in a pagan ceremony. King Olav, a ruthless christian, wants to eredicate all traces of non-christian beliefs and captures the two of them during the ceremony. In order to free Embla, Askur must go to Iceland and convert the people there to catholicism.
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In the Shadow of the Raven
🇮🇸 Iceland The Middle AgesTrausti returns to Iceland just in time to be entangled in a family feud over a stranded whale-cadaver. His mother (the family head) is mortally wounded and Grim kills Erikur; the other clan leader. Isold, daughter of Erikur now takes his place. Isold and Trausti are attracted to each other, but Isold was promised to Hjoerleifur - the son of the Bishop (of Iceland) and his powerful wife. However, Isold has a plan...
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When the Raven Flies
🇮🇸 Iceland The Middle AgesVikings pillage Ireland, seeking silver and slaves, slaying men and women in the process. A young boy is spared when a Viking takes pity on him instead of killing him. Twenty years later the boy returns to Iceland take his revenge.
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Outlaw: The Saga of Gisli
🇮🇸 Iceland The 10th CenturyBased on the saga of Gísli Súrsson, one of the Icelandic Sagas.
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
Scotland 🇮🇸 Iceland Atlantic Ocean The 1880sA fabulous world below the world — An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
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You Can No Longer Remain Silent
🇮🇸 IcelandA Nordic fishermen's village surrounded by the raging sea. This is were fisherman Haldor (Wilhelm Borchert) is living. His marriage with the proud Salvör (Heidemarie Hatheyer) is going to be impend. While on the sea in a storm, he is being cast upon an island. There he falls in love with the farmer's girl Maria (Ingrid Andree). When Haldor learns, that Maria is pregnant, he takes her with him back home. Salvör who was still waiting, hates him for that and marries a rich merchant. Twenty years later Haldor's daughter Gunna and Salvör's son Ragnar, are falling in love with each other. And only now Haldor learns from Salvör that Ragnar is his son.
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Iceland
🇮🇸 IcelandMarine James Murfin, is unaware of Icelandic customs. When he flirts with Katina her Icelandic family take his actions as a proposal of marriage to Katina. Desperately wanting out, James gets his buddy to help him.
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Atlantic Convoy
🇮🇸 IcelandBLASTING THE U-BOATS FROM THE SEAS! — American naval forces are using a port in Iceland as a base for anti-submarine patrols to protect North Atlantic convoys from Nazi subs. The Nazis send undercover agents into the port in a scheme to blow up the entrance to the harbor and keep the patrols blocked in. The officers in charge of the patrols have to find the spies and stop them before they achieve their objective.
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The Outlaw and His Wife
🇮🇸 Iceland The 18th CenturyA stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into crime by his family's starvation, they flee and become two of the many outlaws of Iceland's mountains.
